{"id":15150,"date":"2026-07-22T07:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/who-will-succeed-kaczynski-in-pis-poles-have-a-favorite\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:14:32","slug":"who-will-succeed-kaczynski-in-pis-poles-have-a-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/who-will-succeed-kaczynski-in-pis-poles-have-a-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Succeed Kaczy\u0144ski in PiS? Poles Have a Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll reveals that former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is the leading choice to succeed Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski as the head of PiS, outperforming other party figures.  <\/p>\n<h4>Morawiecki Leads Succession Poll<\/h4>\n<p>The former prime minister was indicated by 46 percent of respondents. Among Law and Justice voters, Morawiecki was supported by 34 percent of those surveyed. Such results suggest that the former prime minister enjoys greater support outside the hard core of PiS.<\/p>\n<p>Morawiecki is the favorite of Poles after Kaczy\u0144ski&#8217;s departure from PiS.<\/p>\n<h4>Czarnek and Szyd\u0142o Follow in Rankings<\/h4>\n<p>Second place in the poll went to the party&#8217;s current candidate for prime minister, Przemys\u0142aw Czarnek, who received 18 percent of the votes of those asked. Czarnek was indicated by 21 percent of respondents declaring support for Law and Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Czarnek was former Prime Minister Beata Szyd\u0142o, and the difference between these politicians was not large. Szyd\u0142o could replace Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski in PiS according to 15 percent of respondents. Among the party&#8217;s voters, 11 percent of respondents indicated her.<\/p>\n<h4>Ziobro and Other Candidates<\/h4>\n<p>The next position was taken by former Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro. 9 percent of respondents and 7 percent of party voters see him as the leader of PiS. According to 12 percent of those asked, someone else should become the leader of Law and Justice. However, another candidate was indicated by only 2 percent of surveyed PiS voters.<\/p>\n<p>Morawiecki is ahead of Czarnek in the polls.<\/p>\n<h4>CBOS Trust Ratings for Key Politicians<\/h4>\n<p>The latest CBOS poll regarding Poles&#8217; trust in politicians shows that trust in the former prime minister and deputy head of PiS, Mateusz Morawiecki, is declared by 29 percent (a drop of one percentage point), while 50 percent declare a lack of trust (unchanged). Slightly fewer people, 27 percent, trust PiS leader Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski. Although the percentage of people who do not trust this politician decreased over the last month\u2014a drop of 3 percentage points to 54 percent\u2014he is still the leader of the ranking in this respect, points out CBOS.<\/p>\n<p>PiS Deputy Head Przemys\u0142aw Czarnek enjoys the trust of 24 percent of respondents, while distrust of him is declared by 51 percent of people. His ratings remained at a similar level over the last month\u2014the group of respondents declaring trust increased by 1 percentage point.<\/p>\n<h4>Context of Previous Polls<\/h4>\n<p>Let us recall that in connection with friction in the PiS grouping, United Surveys by IBRiS in a poll commissioned by Wirtualna Polska conducted on July 16\u201317 asked Poles: &#8220;Who would be a better PiS candidate for prime minister: Mateusz Morawiecki or Przemys\u0142aw Czarnek?&#8221;. 40.7 percent of respondents indicated Mateusz Morawiecki as the PiS candidate for prime minister, and 18 percent chose Przemys\u0142aw Czarnek. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know \/ hard to say&#8221; was answered by as many as 41.3 percent of respondents, as we wrote on Gazeta.pl.<\/p>\n<p>The research by the Pollster Research Institute for &#8220;Super Express&#8221; was conducted on July 16\u201317, 2026, using the CAWI method on a sample of 1,021 adult Poles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll reveals that former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is the leading choice to succeed Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski as the head of PiS, outperforming other party figures. Morawiecki Leads Succession Poll The former prime minister was indicated by 46 percent of respondents. Among Law and Justice voters, Morawiecki was supported by 34 percent of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}